The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02
WEST AND SOUTH.

AT RaVenna, u, Blnky Morgan, con-
victed of the murder of Detective Hulligan
at the time of the rescue of MeMunn, was
sentenced on the 23d to be hanged March
IS, 1888. An appeal would be taken.
AN incendiary at Browning, Ill, fired the
home of Charles Fackler on the Oath. and
he and his wife and child persisted in the
flames.
IT was stated on the Oath that ex-Warden
Harry Varnell, one of the convicted Chi
cago "boodlers," had furnished States-At-
torney Grinneu with interesting informa-
ton relative to the county boodlers, and
will probably not go to Joliet
JAMES g. DOUGLAS, at one time proprietor
of the Indianapolis Qnd) JoW,wat and but
recently married, dropped dead on the
Oath in a theater in the above-named city
NEGRO named Hudson, who was arrested
at Mound City, Ill, was taken to Cairo on
the Oath for safe keeping, he having con-
fessed himself responsible for the burning
of the Lawler House at the former place.
He says he was hired TO commit The deed by
a former landlord of the hotel
The death of Christian Linde, vice-presi-
dent of the Wisconsin Medical Association
occurred at his home in Oshkosh on the
9th, at the age of seventy-nine years.
THROUGHOUT. Southern Illinois a heavy
rainfall which prevailed on the Oath put
an end to the disastrous forest fires that
have been raging in that region
The first prize in the billiard tournament
which closed at Chicago on the night of the
Oath was won by Carter, of Cleveland, with
Schaefer second, and Moulds, of ST. Louis,
third.
THE sudden death of Alderman E. N.
Of inc sod b ,,,1l 4 u,
He superintendent the building of the first
turnpike road in California in 1852
IT was discovered on the 25th that
Charles Albert Kebler, Cincinnati attorney
who took his own life recently, had COM
mitted many forgeries and embezzled trust
funds, the liabilities thus incurred reaching
1915, 900, while his assets were but $780,
600
At Portrero, a suburb of San Francisco,
CAL two blocks of dwelling-houses were
burned on the 25th, thus rendering forty
families homeless The loss was estimated
at $75, 600
Mrs. MARTIN and her two children, occu-
plying cabin in the woods in Henderson
County, Ky, were burned to death by
forest fires on the oath
MAJOR A. W. HENDRICKS, a cousin of the
late President Thomas A. Hendricks,
was found dead in bed, at his home at
Indianapolis, Ind, on the 25th His death
was due to heart-disease
AT Anna O., an engineer and fireman
were killed in a smash-up on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton 4 Dayton road on the 25th
THE celebrated arson suit brought by the
California Fire Insurance Company against
Lambert & Bishop, the wire mill company
at Joliet Ill, was won by the latter, the
jury on the 25th returning verdict of mo
cause for action" The insurance company
Immediately appealed The defendants
would commence suit for 500, 900, charging
malicious prosecution.
THROUGHOUT Michigan and at various
points in the West snow-storms were re-
ported on the Goth.
AT meeting of the Chicago Local As
sembly No 1907, which formerly be-
longed to the knights of Labor, and of
which the Anarchist Parsons was a men,
Der, on the Goth resolutions were adopted
condemning his execution and that of his
brother Anarchists, and denouncing the
courts and the Governor.
AT San Jose, Cal, Charles Goslaw was
hanged on the 250h for the murder of H. A.
Grant
UPON retiring at the Howard House in
Newton, Kan, few nights ago ]. E. F.
Insley, aged thirty, and his mother, aged
sixty-five, blew out the gas They would
probably die.
SOME practical jokers hunting near
Birmingham, Mich, on the 9th over
charged gun and gave it to boy named
Collier and told him to discharge it He
did so, and the gun exploded, fatally in
juring the lad.
THREE children of Mr.. and Mrs O. o.
White, of Morrison, ILL.,, while playing upon
the icein Rock Creek ON the Goth We're pre-
cipitated into the water by the breaking of
the ice and all were drowned
AT Wausau, Wis, by the burning of a
dwelling on the 26th a man named Hon
ickle and his five children lost their lives